The Queensland Government plans to legislate on the abandoned or illegal dumping of commercial fishing nets, offenders will receive penalties and fines.

The Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, Mark Furner, will pass the sustainable fisheries policy to Parliament next week.

World Animal Protection Australia has supported the action and has warned about the damage that the ‘ghost nets’ inflict on the coral and marine wildlife.

The wreck of a Russian navy submarine found on the Norwegian sea, presents radiation levels 800,000 times higher than normal.

Norway found that the radiation leak from the Komsomolets , which sank in 1989, was 800 becquerels  per litre while the normal level of the Norwegian sea is 0.001 becquerels. 

Norway and Russia have been monitoring the radiation levels regularly on joint expeditions.

Human rights lawyer, Amal Clooney, has criticised Australia’s press raids at a press freedom conference in London, also attended by foreign minister Marise Payne. 

In her speech, Clooney warned that these raids could be used as a tool by oppressive leaders. 

Clooney says what happens in Australia will be noticed by other world leaders and set the precedent that limiting press freedom is acceptable. 

Federal Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese’s plan to expel construction union boss John Setka from the Australian Labor Party next week has been thwarted in the Victorian Supreme Court. 

The ALP has agreed to delay its plans while the Supreme Court consider an injunction request from Mr Setka. 

The battle is set to drag on for months and the matter may end up in the High Court. 

In parliament, there is bipartisan support for constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians but politicians are divided on how this will be delivered.

Currently there is no mention of Indigenous people in Australia’s founding document. 

Indigenous delegates are pushing for a commission to advance treaties and make changes to the way Australian history is taught however politicians are unlikely to implement this level of change.  

The new Logan Village Yarrabilba Police Station is due to be completed at the end of next month.

The existing Beat is being upgraded and refurbished due to the area’s growing need for more response services.

A new policing division has also been established to take over parts of the Crestmead and Jimboomba divisions in order to ease the rapidly growing area.

The French parliament is expected to approve the new tax targeting companies such as Google and Facebook with a 3% levy on revenue made inside France.

Any digital company with a revenue of more than 750 million euros - of which at least 25 million is made in France - would be subject to the tax.

The US trade representative says the digital services tax is unfairly targeting American companies.

Sir David Attenborough has called out international leaders for inaction on climate change, using Australia as an example.

He spoke yesterday to the UK parliament's Business, Energy and Industrial strategy Committee, saying "it’s extraordinary that leaders, notably in the US and Australia continue to deny the science behind climate change".

The BBC broadcaster said Australia is already facing some of the most extreme manifestations of climate change - notably the bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef.

Conservative MP Craig Kelly has warned Ken Wyatt that he could campaign for the no side of Indigenous recognition.

Wyatt used his major Naidoc week speech to put constitutional recognition back on the agenda after the election, he said he wants to create a model of the First Nations voice from the Uluru statement.

Mr Kelly said he and other Liberal and National MPs would oppose any divisive proposal.